RT Article
T1 Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
JF Religion and society
VO 12
IS 1
SP 137
OP 148
A1 Cochrane, Laura L.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824155468
AB How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How do common ways of talking about and practicing labor and tolerance unite a religiously diverse population, both in the daaras and more broadly in Senegal? The daaras' shaykh and residents cite Murid teachings to inform their practices and discussions of labor and tolerance, and have developed the daaras to consciously embed those values in everyday life. These shared practices and discourses form a cultural milieu in which people intentionally participate in the interests of a unified community that can work toward both spiritual and environmental purposes.
K1 Baay Fall
K1 daara
K1 Labor
K1 Muridiyya
K1 Practices
K1 Senegal
K1 Sufism
K1 Tolerance
DO 10.3167/arrs.2021.120111